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Etymológia a kultúrna história: pišišvor

Králik, Ľubor

Kultúra slova, 2021, Vol.55 (6), p.321-330

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Título:
Etymológia a kultúrna história: pišišvor
Autor: Králik, Ľubor
Assuntos: Historical Linguistics ; Language and Literature Studies ; Lexis ; Theoretical Linguistics
É parte de: Kultúra slova, 2021, Vol.55 (6), p.321-330
Descrição: The article discusses the etymology of the Slovak expressive pišišvor "narrow-minded, unimportant person (usually as term of abuse); small (strange) creature, usually animal or insect, oddity". This word, previously attested in Slovak dialects (as early as 1938) and in Slovak slang, was also included into the academic Dictionary of the Contemporary Slovak Language (vol. 4, 2021). The author accepts the explanation (cf. already Holub – Lyer, 1968) that the word - also known in Czech - goes back to the name of Emanuel Pyšišvor, a Czech fictitious author of satirical poetry published in Prague in the 1870s who, in his poems, labelled himself as "mostmiserable creature of the world"; in folk culture, the surname Pyšišvor (of obscure etymology) evolved into the common name pišišvor in which a semantic shift "(of a person, creature) miserable" > "lower in quality, inferior; strange, odd, etc." seems to have taken place.
Editor: Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Idioma: Eslovaco

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